@booklet {5527, title = {River of Gods}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {583 pp.}, publisher = {Simon \& Schuster}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Massive future history of India seen through the eyes of a number of different protagonists. Both eutopian and dystopian elements. India is both high tech and very traditional. Related stories include \“The Little Goddess.\” Asimov\’s Science Fiction 29.6 (353) (June 2005): 102-34; \“The Djinn\’s Wife.\” Asimov\’s Science Fiction 30.7 (366) (July 2006): 102-32; rpt. in The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 445-78; and in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2007), 81-111; \“Sanjeev and Robotwallah.\” Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 226-43; Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2008), 297-308 with an editor\’s introduction on 297; and in Mithila, no. 2 (April 2016) http://mithilareview.com/mcdonald_04_16/; \“The Dust Assassin.\” The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Viking, 2008), 236-71 with a note on the author and the author\’s note on the story (272-73); rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2009), 97-117; and \“An Eligible Boy.\” Fast Forward 2. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008), 241-72; rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2009), 120-39 with an editor\’s introduction on 120; and in Rpt. in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK\’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020). EBook. These stories plus \“Vishnu at the Cat Circus\” are rpt. in his Cyberabad Days. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2009. A film was said to be in process but has not appeared.

}, keywords = {Male author, Northern Ireland author}, author = {Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960)} }